HATE BILL DEFEATED!
By Rev. Ted Pike
6 Dec 07
Sen. Kennedy's hate crime amendment, approved by the U.S. House
and Senate, was stripped from the National Defense Appropriations
Act, H.R. 1585, midday Thursday. Congressional Quarterly reports
that support for the arms/hate bill bureau had so eroded in the House
that Democrats were forty votes short of passage.
This great victory confirms that massive last-minute opposition
from the evangelical and far right may well have powerfully helped
defeat it. Sens. Kennedy and Smith may attempt to revive it as stand-alone
legislation after the first of the year. But its rejection by Conference
greatly increases the likelihood that we can defeat it again - if
lovers of freedom continue to protest loudly.
Rev. Ted Pike is director of the National Prayer Network, a Christian/conservative
watchdog organization.
Let the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith teach you how they
have saddled 45 states with hate laws capable of persecuting Christians: http://www.adl.org/99hatecrime/intro.asp.
Learn how ADL took away free speech in Canada and wants to steal
it now in the U.S. Congress. Watch Rev. Ted Pike's Hate
Laws: Making Criminals of Christians at video.google.com. Purchase
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